Type-holder.



M. O. HAZEL.

TYPE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 8,1913.

1,098,499, Patented June 2, 1914.

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MAXMILIAN C. HAZEL, 015 SAN FBANCESCQ, (JALIEFORNIA.

TYPE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Application filed July 8, 1913. serial No. 777,$5D.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, MAXMILIAN C. HAZEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Type Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to type holders adapted to hold type after it has been set.

The object of the invention is to provide a type holder for holding type after it has been set, and before it is locked in the chase, and after it has been locked in the chase.

it further object of the invention is to provide a type holder formed of interlocking members.

Another object of the invention is to provide a type holder in which the members are capable of inward movement only when the type is in place, so that the type may be firmly clamped when it is locked in the chase.

The invention possesses other advantageous features, which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the following description, where I shall outline in full that form of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. The novelty of the invention will be included in the claim succeeding said description. From this it will be apparent that l do not limit myself to the showing made by such drawings and description as I may adopt many variations within the scope of my invention as set forth in said claim.

Referring to said drawings which repre sent one form of the holder of my invention: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the type holder showing some type in place. Fig. 2 is a top view of the holder showing all of the sides pressed outward to provide the maximum interior area. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of two interlocking members disengaged. Fig. 4 is a section through a member adjacent one end.

lleretofore, as far as 1 am aware, after a page or a certain amount of type has been set up, it is tied together by winding a string around it and fastening the strin This operation is continued with each page until the required number of pages to fill the chase or complete the job have been set up. The tied bunches or pages of type are -male engaging means, and at then placed in the chase, the string removed, and the proper furniture arranged, and the chase is locked. This method of holding type 1s universal as far as'l am aware, and the principal object of my invention is to obviate the use of string, thereby effecting a great saving in time and labor.

The holder is constructed so that the sides or members thereof are movable inwardly a limited distance under pressure, so that when the holder is clamped in the chase the type are securely held in position. Besides being used as a holder, the interlocking members either alone or interlocked may be used as furniture to fill up a hole in the chase.

The holder consists of four interlocking members, two of the members 2 forming the sides of the holder, and two of the members 3 forming the ends. For the sake of clarity herein, however, I shall refer to all of the members as sides. The sides may be made of any suitable material such as wood or metal, and are made of a height slightly less than the height of the type. Type is generally five-sixths of an inch high and the sides of the holder are made about two-thirds of an inch high. The width of the sides can be made as desired, but I prefer to make them equal in width to a pica (one-sixth of an inch) or a multiple thereof, in order that the holder may be readily adjusted in the chase.

In the accompanying drawings T have shown one means of interlocking the sides, but it is evident that other means may be employed to accomplish the same result. Each side is provided at one end with a the other end with a female engaging means, so that the extra advantage of complete interchangeability is obtained. The male engaging means on one side engages the female engaging means on the adj acent side. One end of each side is cut away at the top producing the lug 4 at the bottom in which is secured the vertical pin 5. The other end of each side is cut away at the top and bottom, pro ducing the tongue 6, the lower face of which is alined with or lies slightly above the upper face of the lug 4-. The tongue 6 is provided with an aperture 7, preferably rectangular in shape, and of larger area than the area of the pin so that the pin has a certain free movement in the aperture, allowing a slight movement of the sides with respectto each other. The lengths of the lug and tongue are substantially the same and are slightly greater than the width of the sides. Each side is provided on its outer face adjacent the tongue 6 with an indentation or groove 8 which is engaged by the finger of the workman to raise that end of the side when it is desirable to remove the holder from the type. The aperture 7 is only slightly larger than the pin, so as to allow of an inward movement, say of one thirty-second of an inch, and the inner forward corner thereof is preferably rounded on the radius of the pin. Since the pins are pressed into the inner forward corners of the holes with considerable pressure, it is evident that if these corners were square, the pin would contact with the sides of the aperture at two lines only, and after slight use considerable wear would take place along these lines, causing an increase in the maximum internal area of the type holder and consequently render it useless. To overcome this difiiculty I form the inner forward corner of the aperture round, on the radius of the pin, so that the pin con tacts with the corner of the aperture through a quarter circle, thereby substantially eliminating wear. This shape of aperture also permits, for a given sized aperture, a greater amount of independent movement of the parts than any other shaped aperture of the same size, thereby conserving the strength of the side members at their ends.

The lengths of the sides are made such that when the sides are interlocked and pressed outward, the distances between the opposite sides are equal to a multiple of a pica. The sides are made in all lengths from, say, four pica up to any desired length, increasing by picas, and each side is marked to indicate the number of picas which a frame composed thereof will hold. For instance, suppose it is desirable to set up a page of type tweny-four picas wide by thirty-six picas long. The workman selects two sides marked 24 and two sides marked 36, and when the sides are interlocked to form the holder, and are pressed outward the area of the inclosed space is twenty-four picas wide and thirtysix picas long. Since the type are all accurately formed, each line as it is set will fit snugly in the holder and when the page is completed all of the type will be firmly held. In setting up the page, or other matter, I prefer to interlock the sides at the three corners and interlock the fourth corner after the page has been set. The holder, however, does not hold the type sufficiently clamped for printing purposes, therefore I make the interlocking joints somewhat loose so that they may be pressed inward to tightly clamp the type. By placing the holder and the inclosed type in the chase, and screwing up the chase, the sides are pressed inward and the type firmly clamped. This obviates the necessity of tying up and untying each page or group of type, pro-'- vides furniture in the chase and effects a great saving in time and labor.

It is evident that other means than those shown for interlocking the members may readily suggest themselves, and I do not limit myself to any particular interlocking means.

I claim:

A type holder, comprising four interlocking members, each member having a shoulder formed at one edge on one end, a pin seated in said shoulder, a tongue on the opposite end of each member arranged intermediate the edges, each tongue being provided with an aperture of greater area than the cross sectional area of the pin, said aperture being square and being rounded at its forward inner corner on the radius of the pin.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at San Francisco, California, this 3rd day of July 1913.

MAXMILIAN O. HAZEL.

In presence of- W. IV. HEALEY, G. M. PAGE.

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